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The Reason Why

Monday, August 12th, 2019

Tags: COPY EDITING, GRAMMAR, THE REASON WHY
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    • #SpellCheckCannotSaveYou
    • A WHILE VS. AWHILE
    • Acronym
    • Acronym vs Initialism
    • ACTION VERBS
    • ACTIVE VOICE
    • ACTUALLY
    • ADJECTIVES
    • ADRENALINE VS ADRENALIN
    • ADVERBIAL
    • ADVERBS
    • ADVERSE AND AVERSE
    • ADVISOR vs. ADVISER
    • AESTHETIC AND ESTHETIC
    • AGGRAVATE AND IRRITATE
    • AGREEMENT
    • ALRIGHT ALL RIGHT
    • AMN'T
    • an historic
    • anxious vs eager
    • ANYMORE ANY MORE
    • AP STYLE
    • apostrophe
    • apostrophe abuse
    • APOSTROPHE IN LETTER GRADES
    • Apostrophe in Mothers Day
    • Apostrophe in Presidents Day
    • Apostrophe in Veterans Day
    • APOSTROPHES
    • apostrophes for form plurals
    • APPOSITIVE
    • AREN'T I
    • AS WELL AS
    • ASPECT
    • ATTRIBUTIVE NOUN
    • BEACH GOER OR BEACHGOER
    • beg the question
    • beginning a sentence with and
    • beginning a sentence with but
    • ben zimmer
    • BENJAMIN DREYER
    • bimonthly
    • biweekly
    • BOOK TITLES IN ITALICS
    • BOOK TITLES IN QUOTATION MARKS
    • BORED BY OR BORED OF OR BORED WITH
    • Bristol Punctuation Vigilante
    • BRYAN GARNER
    • BULLETED LISTS
    • BURIED VERB
    • CANNABUSINESS
    • capitalization
    • CHAISE LONGUE
    • CHOMPING AT THE BIT
    • CITE and SIGHT
    • CLATFART
    • COLON
    • COLON VS. SEMICOLON
    • Colons
    • comma
    • COMMA AFTER INC
    • COMMA AFTER STATE
    • COMMA AFTER YEAR
    • COMMA BEFORE A TITLE
    • COMMA IN IS IS
    • COMMA SPLICE
    • COMMAS
    • commas around inc.
    • commas between coordinate adjectives
    • COMMAS INSIDE QUOTATION MARKS
    • COMMON SPELLING ERRORS
    • COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS
    • COMPARATIVES
    • comparatives and superlatives
    • compound adjectives
    • COMPOUND MODIFIER
    • compound modifiers
    • COMPOUND NOUN
    • conjunctions
    • CONTINUAL AND CONTINUOUS
    • COPULAR VERBS
    • copy editin
    • COPY EDITING
    • COULD CARE LESS VS COULDN'T CARE LESS
    • COULD OF and COULD HAVE
    • danglers
    • dash
    • decimate
    • decimate usage
    • DECLARATIVE
    • DEFINITE ARTICLE
    • DICTIONARIES
    • DIFFERENT FROM VS DIFFERENT THAN
    • DIRECT OBJECTS
    • DISINTERESTED UNINTERESTED
    • DISJUNCTS CONJUNCTS ADJUNCTS
    • done vs finished
    • DREAMED VS DREAMT
    • DUMMY OPERATOR
    • EASILY CONFUSED WORDS
    • EDITING
    • EFFETE
    • EGGCORN
    • ellipses
    • EMAIL E-MAIL
    • EMIGRATE AND IMMIGRATE
    • EN DASH VS EM DASH
    • enormity
    • ETYMOLOGY
    • EVACUATE
    • EXCLAMATION POINT
    • EXISTENTIAL THERE
    • father's day
    • faulty parallel
    • FAULTY SENTENCE STRUCTURE
    • FAZE and PHASE
    • FIVE BASIC SENTENCE STRUCTURES
    • FLAT ADVERBS
    • FLESH OUT AND FLUSH OUT
    • FORGO AND FORGO
    • FORGO FOREGO
    • FORGONE FOREGONE
    • FORM TYPES OF VERBS
    • FORWENT FOREWENT
    • Fused Participle
    • GAUNTLET GANTLET
    • GENERIC PRONOUN ONE
    • GOOD AND WELL
    • GRADUATE COLLEGE OR GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE
    • GRAMMAR
    • GRAMMAR CHECKER
    • grammar peeves
    • grammar phobia
    • GRAMMAR TERMS
    • GRAMMATICAL MOOD
    • GREAT AND WELL
    • GREATLY
    • GROGNARD
    • HANGED VS HUNG
    • HAVE GOT
    • HEALTHCARE VS HEALTH CARE
    • HELTER SKELTER
    • HISTORIC VS HISTORICAL
    • HOME IN VS HONE IN
    • HOPEFULLY
    • how to write holidays
    • HOW TO WRITE MOVIE TITLES
    • HYPHEN
    • HYPHENATING PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES
    • HYPHENATING SUFFIXES
    • hyphenation
    • hyphens
    • I FEEL BAD VS I FEEL BADLY
    • I vs Me
    • IDIOMS
    • if and whether
    • immigrate emigrate migrate
    • IMPERATIVE
    • imperatives
    • IMPORTANTLY
    • INDEFINITE PRONOUNS
    • INDIRECT OBJECT
    • INDIRECT OBJECT PRONOUN
    • insure vs ensure
    • INTERROGATIVE
    • INTO VS IN TO
    • INTRANSITIVE VERBS
    • IRREGARDLESS AND REGARDLESS
    • IS IS
    • JACOB REES-MOGG
    • JOB TITLES
    • john dowd
    • JONATHON OWEN
    • Journalism Standards
    • KORY STAMPER
    • LAY AND LIE
    • less vs fewer
    • lighted vs lit
    • LIKE AND SUCH AS
    • LINKING VERBS
    • LITERALLY
    • LOAN VS LEND
    • LOG IN VS LOGIN
    • MANAFORT
    • MARY NORRIS
    • METACONCEPTS
    • MIKE POMPEO
    • MODAL AUXILIARY
    • MODALITY
    • modifying phrases
    • MOOD
    • MORE THAN
    • MOST COMMON APOSTROPHE ERRORS
    • MOST COMMON GRAMMAR ERRORS
    • Most common grammar mistakes
    • mother's day
    • MYRIAD VS A MYRIAD OF
    • MYSELF
    • NATIONAL GRAMMAR DAY
    • NEOLOGISMS
    • NEVER MIND / NEVERMIND
    • NEW WORDS
    • no problem
    • NOMINALIZATIONS
    • NONBINARY THEY
    • NONCE WORD
    • NONPLUSSED
    • object complement
    • OBJECT PRONOUN
    • OBJECT PRONOUNS
    • OBJECTS AND SUBJECTS
    • obscenity
    • OED
    • OK OKAY
    • ONTO VS ON TO
    • OVER
    • oxford comma
    • OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
    • PALM OFF VS. PAWN OFF
    • PARENTHESES
    • PARTS OF SPEECH
    • PASSIVE VOICE
    • past participles
    • past tense
    • PAST TENSE OF LAY
    • PAST TENSE OF SLAY
    • period before a quotation mark
    • PERIODS IN INITIALS
    • PERIODS INSIDE QUOTATION MARKS
    • PETER SOKOLOWSKI
    • PHRASAL VERBS
    • PIQUE
    • placement of only
    • plead pled
    • PLURAL POSSESSIVES
    • PLURAL VERB WITH AS WELL AS
    • PLURALS
    • PLURALS OF LATIN WORDS
    • PLURALS OF LETTERS
    • PLURALS OF MOVIE TITLES
    • POSSESSIVE
    • Possessive with Gerund
    • possessives
    • POSSESSIVES OF MOVIE TITLES
    • POSSESSIVES OF PROPER NAMES
    • prefixes
    • PREPOSITIONS
    • PRESCRIPTIVISM
    • PREVENTATIVE
    • PREVENTIVE
    • PRINCIPAL AND PRINCIPLE
    • PRINCIPLE and PRINCIPAL
    • profanity
    • PRONOUN ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT
    • PRONOUNS
    • pronunciation of often
    • proofreading
    • PUNCTUATION
    • QUASI POSSESSIVES
    • quotation marks
    • raise the question
    • REDUPLICATIVE COPULA
    • REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS
    • REIN vs REIGN
    • RELATIVE PRONOUN ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT
    • ROB AND BURGLARIZE
    • SCARE QUOTES
    • SEMICOLON
    • semimonthly
    • semiweekly
    • SENTENCE ADVERBS
    • sentence diagramming
    • SENTENCE FRAGMENT
    • SENTENCE STRUCTURES
    • SENTENCE WRITING
    • serial comma
    • SHARED POSSESSIVE
    • SHARED POSSESSIVES
    • SIMPLE COMPOUND AND COMPLEX SENTENCES
    • SITE
    • SKUNKED TERMS
    • SNEAK PEAK VS SNEAK PEEK
    • spaces around ellipses
    • SPEECH TAGS
    • spell check fail
    • SPELL-CHECKER
    • SPELLING
    • split infinitive
    • SQUINTING MODIFIER
    • STEPHEN CALK
    • STYLE
    • STYLE GUIDES
    • SUBJECT PRONOUNS
    • SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT
    • SUBJUNCTIVE
    • SUBORDINATE CLAUSES
    • suffixes
    • TENSE SHIFTS
    • terminal punctuation
    • THE JOY OF SYNTAX
    • The Possessive of Jr.
    • THE REASON IS BECAUSE
    • THE REASON WHY
    • THESE ONES
    • THRU THROUGH
    • TITLED VS ENTITLED
    • TITLES IN ITALICS
    • TITLES IN QUOTATION MARKS
    • TRANSITIVE
    • TRANSITIVE VERBS
    • TRUMP SPELLING
    • TRUMP TWEET
    • TYPOS
    • UNCLEAR ANTECEDENTS
    • UNDERWAY / UNDER WAY
    • USAGE
    • VERB TENSES
    • VERBS
    • veterans day
    • VIS-A-VIS
    • vocabulary
    • WAS VS WERE
    • WEIRDEST LANGUAGES
    • What Does Hoi Pollio Mean
    • When to Capitalize After a Colon
    • WHEN TO HYPHENATE PREFIXES
    • WHILE VS ALTHOUGH
    • WHO AND WHOM
    • who vs whom
    • WHOA WOAH WHOAH
    • whom
    • whomever
    • WORD CHOICE
    • WORD USAGE
    • WRITING
    • WRITING BOOKS
    • WRITING SKILLS
    • WRITING STYLE
    • WRITING TIPS
    • ZERO RELATIVE PRONOUN

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